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[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 73 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It is generally agreed that Holt's disappearance was a simple case of an accidental drowning, but a number of conspiracy theories surfaced, most famously the suggestion that he was a spy for China and had been collected by a Chinese submarine.

Wikipedia never gets old

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

had been collected by a Chinese submarine.

Critical support for Chinese submarine collecting Australian PM's, but they need to do it more to be counted as proper collection hobby.

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago

Chinese Spy submarine.

[–] Jarmund@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Trust me, it's a lot better in the spanish side of wikipedia... you see way less anti china rhetoric

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Chironex fleckeri, commonly known as the Australian box jelly, and nicknamed the sea wasp, is a species of extremely venomous box jellyfish found in coastal waters from northern Australia and New Guinea to Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

d'you know, it makes sense why my filipino coworker had never been in the sea...

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 months ago

He didn't go swimming in the NT though, he was swimming in Victoria, the south eastern part of the country, so box jellies didn't get him. He probably just got caught in a rip and drowned. People forget how dangerous swimming in the ocean can be, even on a calm day.

[–] mslarryhotdogs@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago

Hey, that is not true that we didn't give a shit. We named a pool after him.

[–] shath@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] marl_karx@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 months ago
[–] sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 3 months ago

Didn't they also name a pool after him

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 months ago

He's at my place. Just wanted to smash some cones in the shed but got lost in the smoko.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 months ago

Emus got him.

Well it's Australia so he probably got eaten by a giant spider.

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 months ago

Dropbear got em

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

I don't remember if it was him, I don't remember if it was that event, and I don't even remember if it was irrevocably proven or just theorized,

but the CIA got him.

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Turned into a merman by the moon on mako island

[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Probably got disappeared